Sam Grafton Battles to Third-Place End in BSOP Tens of millions Tremendous Excessive Curler

The 2022 BSOP Tens of millions is presently happening in São Paulo, Brazil, with greater than 80 occasions scheduled within the Golden Corridor of the WTC Sheraton. One occasion that has already topped a winner is essentially the most largest buy-in match ever held in all the historical past of the BSOP, the R$50,000 NLHE Tremendous Excessive Curler.

The ultimate desk featured an entire host of Brazilian poker stars — together with PokerStars Ambassador Sam Grafton — nevertheless it was Lúcio Lima who shone the brightest to take the champion’s trophy and a prize of R$867,025 , after agreeing a heads-up cope with Renan Bruschi.

The Tremendous Excessive Curler was a large success, drawing a subject of 79 entries to create a prize pool of R$3.3 million, greater than tripling the assured R$1 million.

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Winner’s Response

Lúcio Lima, picked out as a Brazilian player to watch in 2022, is well-known for his achievements in on-line poker, the place he performs beneath the “WizardOfAz” account. Now, he is added a significant dwell title to his resume.

“This title means lots to me, much more in such a proficient subject,” Lúcio told SuperPoker after the victory. “I face these guys lots on-line, however dwell has a unique dynamic, there’s an additional adrenaline rush. I am very blissful.”

Lúcio needed to overcome the cream of Brazilian poker, together with the likes of Crew PokerStars Professional Rafael Moraes and André Akkari, partypoker ambassador Yuri Dzivielevski in addition to Pedro Garagnani, Fabiano Kovalski and Elias Neto, amongst others.

“Very excessive stage. I’d say that for on-line it could be a $5K match to have such excessive stage competitors as right here”, commented the champion in regards to the stage of the sector. “It was enjoyable, nevertheless it was actually laborious too, it was actually sweaty.”

Earlier than taking part within the Tremendous Excessive Curler, Lúcio Lima solely had one money in dwell poker tournaments, in line with The Hendon Mob. The Brazilian virtually solely performs on-line tournaments, however intends to vary that. “I’ll begin touring extra to play these occasions. I am actually blissful to nail this one,” he commented.

Ultimate Desk Motion

The ultimate desk began with Sam Grafton within the lead and comfortably forward of the chasing pack. The Crew PokerStars Professional, who even lived in Brazil for some time, joked on Twitter referring to Brazil’s dominance in on-line poker. “Similar to each on-line remaining I made this yr: me and eight Brazilians”, commented the Brit.

Grafton started well, eliminating Daniel Aziz in ninth place, and continued to accumulate chips to remain in the lead for a good part of the final table.

Fabiano Kovalski managed to close the gap to the leader by eliminating Eder Campana in eighth place and Pedro Garagnani in seventh. But with six players left, he lost a giant pot against Renan Bruschi that changed the course of the final table.

The two ended up all-in preflop with Bruschi holding against Kovalski’s . Bruschi took down the pot and took the chip lead. Kovalski was left short and ended up being eliminated in sixth place.

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Bruschi made good use of the chips and was accountable for the subsequent two eliminations — Ariel Bahia in fifth place and Saulo Sabioni in fourth place to sit down with virtually twice as many chips as his two opponents three-handed.

Grafton, the one participant with an opportunity of spoiling the Brazilian celebration, was Bruschi’s subsequent sufferer. Having not too long ago gained the $200K Coin Rivet Invitational for $5.5 million, this time Grafton needed to accept third place on the rostrum.

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By sending Grafton to the rail, Bruschi secured an virtually 7:1 lead in chips going into heads-up play in opposition to Lima.

Regardless of the massive drawback, Lima managed to shorten the gap after which double his stack to stage issues out. The 2 finalists ended up closing a deal, guaranteeing R$717,025 every and leaving R$150,000 up for grabs for the champion.

After the deal, the 2 determined to go all-in in the dead of night to search out the champion. Bruschi turned over and Lima confirmed . The board got here , who took the champion’s trophy and a prize of R$ 867,025.